Since my last doctors visit, I have been working out a little bit since I have been cleared to do anything I want to do. I have been doing some physical therapy stuff (same stuff as before but with weights), doing an exercise video, and doing some resistance band workouts.
With physical therapy, I am using an ankle weight. It can go up to 20 pounds, but I am only using 4 pounds right now. My knee is starting to get better with it so I am going to try to bump it up to 8 pounds either tomorrow or Thursday when I do it again.
The exercise video I have been doing is the Nike+ Fitness Game on the Xbox 360 with the Kinect. It seems to be pretty good, works all aspects of your body. There is some things in the game that I still can't, or not do that well. There is stuff to do on my knees, and since I don't got complete feeling in my right knee yet, it is kinda hard to balance on it, but I am getting better and more used to it. There is also some 1 legged things to do, I can do a few of them then I kinda have to cheat and use both legs. I can do the balance on my right leg fine, it is the hopping around on one leg that kinda gets to my knee and starts hurting. I am also doing some squats among other things that are working good for my knee.
The band workout I do is mostly for my upper body, I am trying to get my muscle tone back up there. I am doing these when the Nike+ Training is not on the strength parts. I am going to add in some leg workouts next time I do the bands. I figure I can add in squats, calf raises, dead lifts, among other things.
Overall, my knee has been sore this past week and a half. Just from being back at work and exercising. I guess that is good because it shows that I am working it more than I was doing and hopefully I can be back to normal in no time. Every once in a while I need to take some sort of pain reliever because of the pain. The back of my leg incisions hurt every once in a while, just feels like they are pulling. But as you can see in the picture below, there is a scab at the top of the incisions so I think that is what is grabbing onto my pants and bothering me. My knee is still swollen a little bit, I am trying to ice it every night after I am done working out to try and help the swelling to reduce.
Well another week down, and another week closer to being fully healed. Also, another week closer until I get married to the greatest lady ever (besides my mom haha). My next appointment is on March 8th, which I am sure that I will be in and out of there for the most part.
Below is pictures of my knee from about an hour ago. I took pictures of the sides of my knee as well, not sure if you can see the swelling. I also took pictures of my baloons, just because one is still afloat.
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